Summary
Extending from the wheel pit is a small tailrace 1.8m wide, which flows across the lower side of a flat-topped mound, 1.8m high.
Identification Images (0)
Most Recent Monitoring
None Recorded
Monument Types
- TAIL RACE (Late 19th C - 1887 AD to 1900 AD)
Description
Extending from the wheel pit is a small tailrace 1.8m wide, which flows across the lower side of a flat-topped mound, 1.8m high. What the mound represents is uncertain. If the mound is composed of the spoil from the wheel pit (20118*68) it must have been deposited there for a purpose, otherwise it would have been needlessly blocking the obvious course of the tail race. Possibly it was intended to lift the tail race a little above the level of the Derwent when the full, in order to prevent back watering. At least 7 iron pins were fixed into the boulders or outcrop on either side of the mill; they are probably where the struts for supporting the wheel and the leat were secured (Lax, A. 1995).
(Oxford Archaeology 2019)
A tailrace and wheel pit associated with the Wad mines mill. The mill and associated buildings and trackways are marked on the second edition OS (1899) and a sketchplan in Tyler (1995; Plates 6 and 41). Although the tail race is no longer identifiable on the ground, there is a wheel pit adjacent to a small building and a boggy area above which was probably a mill pond.
References
- --- SNA61977 - Unpublished document: Oxford Archaeology North. 2007. Historic Landscape Survey of Borrowdale, Cumbria.
- --- SNA70525 - Report: Oxford Archaeology North. 2019. Derwent Catchment, Borrowdale, Cumbria: Historic Floods Survey.
Other Statuses and References
- Environmentally Sensitive Area
- National Park (Lake District)
Associated Events
- ENA4020 - Field Survey, Historic Landscape Survey of Borrowdale, Cumbria
- ENA11859 - Field Survey, Derwent Catchment, Borrowdale, Cumbria: Historic Floods Survey
Associated Finds
None Recorded
Related Records
- Related to: Graphite (Wad) Mine on Seathwaite Farm, Borrowdale (Monument) - 20118 / MNA119961